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14-letter words containing s, i, g, h, n, l

  • gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
  • genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
  • golden thistle — Spanish oyster plant.
  • hair-splitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
  • half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
  • hanging scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
  • happy slapping — the practice of attacking, esp slapping, an unsuspecting passer-by and filming it with a mobile camera phone, footage of which is then circulated for the amusement of others
  • healing powers — beneficial qualities
  • heiligenschein — a ring of light around the shadow cast by a person's head, especially on a dewy, sunlit lawn, caused by reflection and diffraction of light rays; halo.
  • highland dress — the historical costume, including the plaid, kilt or filibeg, and bonnet, as worn by Highland clansmen and soldiers
  • highland games — a meeting in which competitions in sport, piping, and dancing are held: originating in the Highlands of Scotland
  • highs and lows — If you refer to the highs and lows of someone's life or career, you are referring to both the successful or happy times, and the unsuccessful or bad times.
  • holding thumbs — holding the thumb of one hand with the other, in the hope of bringing good luck
  • home schooling — Home schooling is the practice of educating your child at home rather than in a school.
  • horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
  • hot gospelling — aggressive evangelizing of religious belief
  • house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
  • hungtow island — an island off the SE coast of Taiwan. 8 miles (13 km) long.
  • hydrogenolysis — decomposition of a compound resulting from its interaction with hydrogen.
  • hypophalangism — the condition of having fewer than the normal number of phalanges per finger or toe.
  • in high places — People in high places are people who have powerful and influential positions in a government, society, or organization.
  • insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
  • island-hopping — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
  • king's english — standard, educated, or correct English speech or usage, especially of England.
  • kochel listing — the chronological number of a composition of Mozart as assigned in the catalog of the composer's works compiled in the 19th century by the Austrian musicologist Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877) and since revised several times. Abbreviation: K.
  • landing lights — aircraft lights used when landing
  • landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
  • laughing stock — object of others' amusement
  • laughingstocks — Plural form of laughingstock.
  • laughter lines — Laughter lines are the same as laugh lines.
  • light industry — consumer goods manufacturing
  • light-horseman — a light-armed cavalry soldier.
  • living history — any of various activities involving the re-enactment of historical events or the recreation of living conditions of the past
  • lopping shears — long-handled pruning shears.
  • marginal hacks — (humour)   Margaret Jacks Hall, a building into which the Stanford AI Lab was moved near the beginning of the 1980s (from the D.C. Power Lab).
  • middle english — the English language of the period c1150–c1475. Abbreviation: ME.
  • mineral rights — right to extract minerals from land
  • modern english — the English language since c1475.
  • murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
  • nanopublishing — an inexpensive form of online publishing that uses blogging as a model to reach a specific audience
  • natural rights — any right that exists by virtue of natural law.
  • neighborliness — having or showing qualities befitting a neighbor; friendly.
  • nonphysiologic — of or relating to physiology.
  • norman english — the dialect of English used by the Norman conquerors of England
  • oligosynthetic — (linguistics) (of a language) using a relatively small number of morphemes which combine synthetically to form compound words.
  • ornithologists — Plural form of ornithologist.
  • oxford english — that form of the received pronunciation of English supposed to be typical of Oxford University and regarded by many as affected or pretentious
  • parking lights — the parking lights on a vehicle are the small lights at the front that help other drivers to notice the vehicle and to judge its width
  • philosophising — to speculate or theorize, usually in a superficial or imprecise manner.
  • philosophizing — to speculate or theorize, usually in a superficial or imprecise manner.
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